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Government Minister escapes assassination attempt
Senegal's Minister of Economy and Finance, Abdoulaye Diop, has escaped a murder attempt "by top government officials", the privately - owned newspaper, le Quotidien,...
Zimbabwe Army ordered to shoot and kill …
Diamond fields in the Chiadzwa area of Marange District have turned into bloody battle fields pitting armed members of the Zimbabwe National Army...
Hard Drugs : The last monster West Africa needs
Encumbered with the challenges of poverty, corruption, conflicts, economic and social upheavals and a questionable welfare structure, the last monster West Africa needs in...
Abducted Israeli rescued by Ghana Police
Ghanaian security personnel have rescued an Israeli businessman who was kidnapped in Accra on 19 October, the state-owned Daily Graphic reported on Friday. It...
African serfdom running amok
I am Aissata Saydou. At 13, I was sold to one Kader Amadou ba for 126,985 Mauritanian Ouguiya ($500). Selling me was the only...
Somali gov’t expresses gratitude for international involvement in fight against pirates
The Somali transitional government has welcomed the presence of foreign warships guarding the country's pirate-infested waters, Prime Minister Nur Hassan Hussein said.
The foreign warships...
Two Kenyan Judges face criminal charges, one for attempted murder
A Kenyan Judge was on Tuesday arraigned in court, charged with attempted murder for stabbing a driver, Robert Kamau, on the stomach. Kenyan High...
Zimbabweans charged with murder of Indian and South African in Botswana
Three Zimbabweans in Botswana including a woman are facing death sentence as they are accused of first degree murder. They are...
Man repeatedly rapes and kills a child in Mugabe’s village
In a shock rape case in Robert Mugabe's rural home of Zvimba , an 18-year-old man repeatedly raped his three-year-old niece, in full view...
Whereabouts of released hostages unknown to Nigerian officials
A military spokesman has said that he does not know the whereabouts of the Nigerian hostages whom the Niger Delta militants said were released...
Oil workers released in Nigeria
The foremost militant group in the Niger Delta area of Nigeria have confirmed the release of the oil workers who were kidnapped two weeks...
Albino body parts : A hot demand in Burundi
In the past months, 26 albinos have been killed in Burundi for their body parts. The witchdoctors have however been indicted with the murders...
Hacking alert in Nigeria
The Nigerian Senate is presently considering a Bill aimed at restraining the activities of internet criminals as the government has come to realise the...
Ivorian gov’t to embark on criminal investigations against Netherlands company
Government lawyers from the Ivory Coast have said they may go ahead with criminal investigations against Trafigura, the Netherlands-based oil trader, which owned the...
Kenyan official arrested in connection with hijacked ship
Kenyan police were still holding Thursday a maritime official arrested Wednesday for allegedly giving sensitive news to the press about the hijacked arms freighter...
Kenyan armed forces face Somali pirates
The Kenyan Armed Forces has deployed units of its military to combat the rising Somalia hijacking and pirate activities in an attempt to rescues...
Doping case erases Kenyan athlete’s record
Kenya's athletic officials Wednesday banned the national 400 metres champion Elizabeth Muthoka for two years after she failed a dope test. Athletics Kenya (AK)...
Farm invasions rock Zimbabwe again
People say the conventional thinking here by ZANU-PF supporters is that it
is better to invade farms now, for if the new cabinet is...
Asian supermarkets flooding Uganda with expired goods
The Uganda National Bureau of Standards (UNBS) officials found out that most supermarkets in Eastern Uganda are flooded with expired goods.
It was discovered that...
Egyptian tycoon goes to court over Lebanese star’s murder
The trial of Egyptian business tycoon and politician Hisham Talaat Mustafa for his alleged involvement in the killing of Lebanese singer Suzanne Tamim in...
Tsvangirai prepares to punish Mugabe officials
Zimbabwe prime minister-designate Morgan Tsvangirai has been quoted as saying some senior members of Robert Mugabe's Zanu-PF party could face trial over political violence,...
Spanish ship seized by Mauritania to be freed only after …
The Mauritanian maritime authorities Sunday agreed to release a Spanish fishing vessel, "Bahia de Portosanto", detained last Wednesday for illegal fishing, as soon it...
10 Al Qaeda terrorists arrested in raid by security forces
The Mauritanian police force has arrested, during the last 24 hours, ten alleged islamist terrorists, security sources disclosed Sunday.
The suspected terrorists were arrested during...
Row over water leaves 2 policemen and several dead in Kenya
At least 13 people have been killed in inter-clan clashes over water in the north-eastern region of Mandera, a humanitarian official has said.
"The two...
Robbers break into Barack Obama’s grandmother’s home
Reports from Kenya say five people have been detained and security has been increased around Alego-Kogello village, where Barrack Obama's grandmothers' house was broken...
South Korean vessel seized by pirates
A South Korean cargo ship was seized by pirates off the coast of Somalia on Wednesday as hijackers demanded a $1.4m (€1m, £790,000) ransom...
Lebanese ‘Idol’ star’s murder : Millionaire could face death penalty
The arrest of Hisham Talaat Mustapha, a leading Egyptian businessman and member of the country's Upper House of Parliament, for his alleged involvement in...
Largest stockpile of anti-personnel landmines discovered
The Niger army says it has seized a stockpile of more than 1,000 anti-personnel landmines it found abandoned on the Niger-Chad border. If confirmed...
MEND denies Israeli’s abduction and offers help
The Movement for the Emancipation of the Niger Delta (MEND) has said it is not behind Tuesday night's abduction of an Israeli construction worker,...
Four sudanese hijackers want plane to proceed to France
A Sudanese plane, hijacked during a flight from Nyala, in Darfur, to Khartoum, the capital of Sudan, landed Tuesday at the Koufra airport ,...